- Title
- Montage as visual art research: identities, images and meanings
- Creator
- Grushka, Kathryn
- Relation
- Australian Art Education Vol. 33, Issue 1, p. 72-91
- Relation
- http://www.arteducation.org.au/journal
- Publisher
- Australian Institute of Art Education
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- Visual methodologies in qualitative research acknowledge that images carry personal, cultural and social significance and are embedded in all our lives. Montage, in the field of visual art education is presented as a tool that allows for multiple visual narrative perspectives, or voices through art making. It is a powerful inference tool that can work to reveal research findings and foreground the centrality of visual narratives in art education. The performative action of montage construction communicates the researchers phenomenological insights and is presented as an authentic way to communicate matters of subjectivity in visual art research. This paper presents how montage, is used in a mixed qualitative research method to reveal the significance of embodied imaging activities of students that occur in classroom studio learning environments. It locates the use of montage as both a tool in conceptual categorisation and a tool used to capture and reveal the embodied aesthetic world of the student. Montage is used to represent how the students explore their identities through artmaking and how their visual narratives reveal communicative understandings about self, beliefs and values. The process of working with montage, as a tool for meta-inference and the construction of meaning in qualitative research works to both enact and reveal the power of images to support the exploration of youth identities.
- Subject
- montage; visual art education; identity; visual narratives
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/922256
- Identifier
- uon:9520
- Identifier
- ISSN:1032-1942
- Language
- eng
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